JP2000229719A - Empty box conveyer at fruit sorting facility - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it easy to find where trouble has occurred, for a relatively not busy operator to support a busy operator packing at each draw-out conveyer part, and to inspect and repair trouble portion by adding an inspection passage. SOLUTION: Conveyed fruits A are manually sorted by a manual-sorting conveyer 8. Manually sorted fruits A are received and are conveyed by a sorting conveyer 12. A sorting device 14 sorts the fruits A by rating and by size while the fruits are conveyed. The sorted fruits A are received and conveyed by a draw-out conveyer 15 which crosses the sorting conveyer 12 at right angles. An empty box conveyer 2 and a packing accessory material conveyer 3 to are arranged convey empty boxes B and packing accessory materials C at the outside of the conveyance end of the draw-out conveyer 15. An inspection passage 17 is arranged in parallel with the sorting conveyer 12.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention sorts grading, size, and the like while receiving fruits that have been hand-selected from a hand-selecting / transferring device that manually selects the fruits being transferred, and transferring the fruits by a sorting / transferring device. A sorting device, a drawer transfer device for receiving and transferring the sorted fruits orthogonal to the sorting transfer device, an empty box for packing the sorted fruits outside the transfer end of the drawer transfer device, and a boxing assist This is a technique in which an empty box transfer device for transferring materials and the like and a packing auxiliary material transfer device are provided, and an inspection passage is provided in parallel with the sorting and transfer device, and can be used as an empty box transfer device for a sorting facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Non-standardized products are extracted by a worker from fruits that are supplied by fruit and are being transferred by a manual sorting and transferring device, and in-specified fruits are transferred from the manual sorting and transferring device to each sorting and transferring device. During transfer and transfer, grades (excellent, superior, good, average) and sizes (4L, 3L, 2L, L,
M, S, 2S), etc., are sorted by a sorting device, and the fruits are supplied to each drawer / transfer device at a predetermined position provided orthogonally to the respective sort / transfer device for each combination of the grade and the size. It is transported. A boxing auxiliary material and an empty box used when packing the sorted fruits being transported by the drawer / transfer devices are packed in each of the sorting / transferring devices. The boxing auxiliary material is transferred by the operator, and the boxing auxiliary material, for example, sorted fruits being transferred into a tray is stored by an operator, and further, each empty box provided on the upper side of each of the sorting and transferring devices The empty box is transferred by the transfer device, the empty box is placed on an empty box mounting table by an operator, and the fruits stored in the tray are packed into the loaded empty box by the operator.

[0003]

Each of the boxing auxiliary material transfer devices and the empty box transfer device for transferring a boxing auxiliary material and an empty box is provided above each sorting and transferring device for transferring fruit to be sorted. Due to the provision, the visibility of each drawer / transfer device for receiving and transferring the sorted fruits is poor, which may make it difficult to cope with the occurrence of a malfunction, or may cause the drawer / transfer device to fail. In some cases, a worker who is boxed with a busy person can have a busy person and a relatively non-busy person, but at this time, he could not help, but this invention aims to solve these problems. is there.

[0004]

To this end, the present invention relates to a hand sorting / transferring device 8 for manually sorting the fruits (a) being transferred, and to each sorting / transfer receiving the manually sorted fruits (a). A sorting device 14 for sorting by grade and size while transferring by the device 12, and a drawer transfer device 15 for receiving and transferring the sorted fruit (a) orthogonal to the respective sorting and transferring device 12
An empty box transfer device 2 for transferring an empty box (b) for packing the fruits (a) and a boxing auxiliary material (c) outside the transfer end portion of each drawer transfer device 15; An auxiliary material transfer device 3 is provided, and an inspection passage 17 is provided substantially in parallel with each of the sorting and transfer devices 12.

[0005]

According to the present invention, the fruit (a) being supplied by the hand sorting / transferring device 8 after receiving the supply of the fruit (a) is processed by an operator to extract a nonstandard product, and the fruit (a) of the standard product is processed. It is handed over from the manual sorting / transferring device 8 to the sorting / transferring device 12 and classified by grade (excellent, excellent, good, average) and size (4L, 3L, 2L, L, M, S, 2S) and the like are sorted by the sorting device 14, and the fruits (A) are separated by a combination of these grades and sizes into the respective drawer / transfer devices 15 at predetermined positions provided orthogonal to the respective sort / transfer devices 12. Supplied and transported. A boxing auxiliary material (c) and an empty box (b) which are used when packing the sorted fruits (a) being transferred by the drawer transfer devices 15 are packed in the drawer transfer devices 15. The boxing auxiliary material (c) is transferred by each of the boxing auxiliary material transfer devices 3 provided outside the end portion, and the boxed auxiliary material (c), for example, a sorted fruit (c) being transferred into a tray B) is stored by an operator, and the empty box (b) is transferred by each empty box transfer device 2 provided outside the transfer end portion of each drawer transfer device 15, and the empty box A is emptied by the worker. The fruit (a) stored in the tray (c) is stored together with the tray (c) by the operator into the empty box (b) placed on the box mounting table. At the time of this sorting operation and boxing operation, if a problem occurs in each of the sorting and transferring devices 12, each of the drawing and transferring devices 15, the empty box transferring device 2, and the boxing auxiliary material transferring device 3, An operator inspects and repairs from an inspection passage 17 provided substantially parallel to the sorting and transferring device 12.

[0006]

According to the present invention, each of the box auxiliary member transfer devices 3 and each of the empty box transfer devices 2 for transferring the box auxiliary member (c) and the empty box (b).
Is provided outside the transfer end portion of each drawer / transfer device 15, so that the upper part of the sorting / transfer device 12 becomes a space, and the drawer / transport device 15, the box auxiliary material transfer device 3, and the empty space. The outlook of the box transfer device 2 and the like is improved, and it is possible to easily find a location where a defect has occurred.
It is easy to help a busy worker who packs boxes in five parts and a relatively unworked worker. In addition, inspection passage 17
Inspection and repair of trouble spots are easy due to the provision of the above.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the illustrated example, if the fruit (a) is, for example, a tomato (a), an empty box (b) for packing the fruit sorting facility 1 inside the building 1a for sorting the tomato (a), An empty box transfer device including each of the empty box transfer devices 2 for transferring the packing auxiliary material (c) and the like and each of the box auxiliary material transfer devices 3 and the like will be illustrated and described.

The fruit sorting facility 1 has a configuration in which each device is arranged in a plurality of rows, and the tomatoes (a) received from the respective farmers.
Are provided on the lower side of each of the torrers 4, and each take-out device 5 and each of the rotation roller conveyors 6 are provided in the left-right direction. A damper 7 is provided, and tomato (a) is supplied and taken over on a transfer belt stretched over each hand-selection transfer device 8 provided in the left-right direction, and is transferred by the transfer belt toward the upper side.

The tomatoes (a) transported by the transfer belt of the manual sorting / transferring device 8 are non-standardized products that are visually selected by the worker A, and the non-standardized products that are visually selected (a).
Is supplied by a worker A onto a transfer belt of a nonstandard product transfer device 9 provided at the front and rear, transferred and supplied into a container 10a on a container table 10 provided at a transfer end portion, and temporarily stored. . In addition, the tomatoes (i), which were overlooked in the upstream side of the non-standardized product transfer device 9 and transferred by the transfer belt of the hand-selection transfer device 8, are each worker B
The non-standard tomatoes (a), which have been visually sorted again by the eye, are re-visually sorted, and are worked on a transfer belt of an auxiliary non-standard product transfer device 11 provided in the left and right direction below each of the hand-selection transfer devices 8. Is supplied automatically from the lower end of the transfer belt to the transfer belt of the nonstandard product transfer device 9 by the transfer belt, merges and is transferred and supplied into the container 10a. In this configuration, both tomatoes (a) are temporarily stored.

Each transfer device provided with each distributing tool 13a is provided between the transfer end portion of the manual sorting transfer device 8 and the transfer starting end portion of the sorting transfer device 12 formed in four rows in the front and rear directions in the left-right direction. A configuration in which the apparatus 13 is provided in the left-right direction and visually sorted and conformed tomatoes (a) are distributed to measuring cups (not shown) rotatably provided at predetermined intervals in the four rows of the sorting transfer devices 12. It is.

At the end of the transfer of each sorting and transferring device 12, there are provided excellent, excellent, good and average grades of tomato (a) distributed to each measuring cup of each sorting and transferring device 12. 4L, 3L, 2L, L, M, classified by class and size
Sorting device 1 of electronic camera type sorting machine for sorting into S, 2S, etc.
4 for each of the combinations of the respective grades and sizes sorted by the sorting device 14, and each drawer transfer device 15 provided in the front-rear direction in an orthogonal state below the sorting transfer device 12. In this configuration, each combination is supplied and transferred onto a transfer belt. A space (d) is formed on the upper side of each sorting / transporting device 12 so that each of the sorting / transporting devices 1 is formed.
2 and a configuration in which the drawer transfer device 15 and the like have good visibility, and a configuration that facilitates finding when a failure occurs.

On the upper side of each drawer / transfer device 15, each auxiliary drawer / transfer device 16 having an auxiliary transfer belt having a slower transfer speed than each drawer / transport device 15 is stretched. It is provided at a lower position to take over and transport the selected tomato (a) of each combination transported by each drawer transporter 15 and to be transported by a packing auxiliary material transporter 3 described later. The worker C takes, for example, the tray (C) of the filling auxiliary material (C), and temporarily stores it in a predetermined position near the worker C.

The stored tray (c) is placed on the auxiliary transfer belt of the auxiliary pull-out transfer device 16, and the tomato (a) transferred by the transfer belt on the auxiliary transfer belt is taken out. The configuration is such that the worker C stores this in the tray (c). An empty box mounting table 18 is provided at the transfer end of each of the auxiliary withdrawal transfer devices 16 on the lower side of each of the withdrawal transfer devices 15 so as to store empty boxes (b) transferred by the empty box transfer device 2 described later. The worker C takes this empty box mounting table 18
The empty box (b) is placed upward. When the tray (c) is filled with tomatoes (a) and the tray (c) is full, the worker C puts the tray (c) into the empty box (b) together with the tomato (a) stored in the tray (c). It is a configuration to store.

Outside the transfer end of each of the auxiliary drawer / transfer devices 16 on the lower side of each of the drawer / transport devices 15 on the front and rear sides, the boxing auxiliary material transfer provided with rotation rollers at predetermined intervals so as to rotate freely. The device 3 is arranged in a U-shape in plan view, and a tray (c) serving as a boxing auxiliary material (c) is supplied from one end thereof. The worker C of the 16 units of the device takes this worker C
Is stored in the vicinity. An indicator light 2 operable when the worker C is busy is located near the worker C.
0 is provided, and when the indicator light 20 is lit, the worker C at a relatively lightly busy location can go to the lit location of the worker C to assist.

As a result, the work load of each worker C who performs packing and the like can be balanced. Empty box transfer devices 2 and 2 in which rotation rollers are rotatably mounted at predetermined intervals on both front and rear sides outside the transfer end portion of each auxiliary drawer transfer device 16 on the lower side of each drawer transfer device 15 on both sides. Are arranged and provided. The box making machine 21 is provided on the lower side (right side) of the material storage 22 at the transfer end portion of the sorting and transferring apparatus 12, and the empty box (b) automatically made by the box making machine 21 is The empty box supply / transfer device 23, in which rotation rollers connected to the machine 21 are mounted at predetermined intervals, is transferred to the transfer start end of the front and rear empty box transfer device 24, in which rotation rollers are mounted at predetermined intervals, and is transferred. is there.

Above the transfer start end of the sorting and transferring device 12, the front and rear empty box transferring device 24 is disposed in the front and rear direction, and the empty box (b) taken over by the front and rear empty box transferring device 24 is Each of the empty box transfer devices 2 on both the front and rear sides is extruded by the operation of each of the pushing tools 25, 25 provided at the transfer start and end portions on the left outer side of the front and rear empty box transfer device 24, and through the supply shooters 26, 26. , 2 and is transported on the rotation roller of each empty box transfer device 2. Each worker C takes an empty box (b) during this transfer, and transfers the empty box mounting table 18. It is configured to be placed on top and packed in a box.

The packed boxes, which have been boxed with tomatoes (a) on the empty box mounting tables 18 and which have been boxed, are stored in each worker C
Thereby, it is supplied and transferred onto the rotation roller of each auxiliary boxing / transporting device 28 provided below each of the auxiliary pull-out / transferring devices 16, and is moved in the left-right direction on both front and rear sides provided on the respective drawer-transporting devices 15. It is configured to be handed over to each of the provided packaged goods transfer devices 27, and is transferred on the rotatable rollers, which are rotatably mounted at predetermined intervals, of the respective packaged goods transfer devices 27,
The lid is sealed by each sealing machine 28a that seals the lid provided near the transfer end. The packed boxes, which have been sealed, are moved to the material storage 22 and temporarily stored.

Each of the sorting and transferring devices 12, 1 formed in four rows
Inspection passages 17 are provided between the two in a state substantially parallel to the respective sorting and transporting devices 12.
Inspection, repair, and the like of each of the drawer transfer devices 15 and the like can be easily performed. If the fruit (a) selected in the fruit sorting facility 1 is, for example, tomato (a), kiwi, or the like, the surface is brushed with a washing machine 32, but persimmon, peach, apple, pear, etc. In this case, since the surface portion cannot be brushed by the washing machine 32, as shown in FIG. A transfer device 30 provided with a dispensing tool 30a is provided. A transfer device 31 and the washing machine 32 are provided on the upstream side of the transfer device 30. The transfer device 31 is provided on the side of the transfer start end of the washing device 32. Has a configuration in which a transfer device 34 connected to an L-shaped bypass transfer device 33 is provided, and at the transfer start end of the transfer device 34, a torator 35 for supplying fruits (a) is provided.

The transfer device 34 includes the washing machine 32
Alternatively, a switching valve 36 for switching and transferring the fruit (a) to one of the bypass transfer devices 33 is rotatably supported. In order to transfer tomato (a), kiwi, etc. to the washing machine 32 side, the switching valve 36 is switched, and persimmons, peaches, apples, pears, etc. are connected to the bypass transfer device 33 side. The switching valve 36 is not switched so as to transfer it to

As a result, various kinds of fruits (a) can be selected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

Fig. 1 Overall plan of the fruit sorting facility

FIG. 2 is an overall side view of a partially sectioned fruit sorting facility.

FIG. 3 is a view showing another embodiment, and is a plan view of a washing machine section.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Empty box transfer device 3 Boxing auxiliary material transfer device 8 Hand sorting transfer device 12 Sorting transfer device 14 Sorting device 15 Pull-out transfer device 17 Inspection passageway (a) Fruit (tomato) (b) Empty box (c) Boxing auxiliary material

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A hand sorting / transferring device (8) for manually sorting fruits (a) being transferred, and a grade and size sorting while receiving the manually sorted fruits (a) and transferring them by each sorting / transferring device (12). Sorting devices 14 for sorting and the like, each drawing and transferring device 15 for receiving and transferring the sorted fruit (a) orthogonally to each of the sorting and transferring devices 12, and outside the transfer end portion of each of the drawing and transferring devices 15. And an empty box transfer device 2 for transferring an empty box (b) for packing the fruit (a) and a box auxiliary material (c), and a box auxiliary material transfer device 3 for each of the sorted fruits (a). Transfer device 1
2. An empty box transfer device for a fruit sorting facility, wherein an inspection passage 17 is provided substantially in parallel with 2.